The  Italian  Pope's  Campaign 

Against  the  Constitutional 

Rights  of  American 

Citizens 


Uc^>^ 


4th  EDITION 


BY 


THOS.  E.  WATSOIN 

Author  of  "The  Story  of  France,"  "Napoleon,"  "Life  and  Times 
of  Andrew  Jackson,"  "Life  and  Times  of  Thomas  Jeffer- 
son" "The  Roman  Catholic  Hierarchy"  Etc. 


1928 

THE  TOM  WATSON   BOOK   COMPANY,   Inc. 

Thomson,  Ga. 


Copyright  by 

THOS.  E.  WATSON 

1915 


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The  Italian  Pope's  Campaign 

Against  the  Constitutional 

Rights  of  American 

Citizens. 

N   THE    softest    way   of    the   pussy-footer.    Cardinal    Gibl)ons 
has  already  established  three  Roman  Catholic  national  functions. 

One  of  these  is,  the  Pan-American  Thanksgivini;-,  in  which 
those  South  American  countries  zvJiich  do  not  tolerate  any  other 
public  worship  than  that  of  the  Italian  pope,  are  intensely  gratified 
by  the  sight  of  the  officials  of  our  Protestant  Government  bending 
reverently,  in  St.  Patrick's  church,  while  the  man  in  the  chemise 
and  the  petticoat  creates  his  God  out  of  a  piece  of  wheat  bread. 

Another  function  is,  "Cardinal's  Day,"  on  which  the  Prince 
of  Baltimore  rides  to  Washington  City  in  his  private  car — free,  of 
course — and  receives  the  homage  of  his  Roman  Catholic  subjects, 
supplemented  by  the  congratulatory  attendance  of  the  officials  of 
the  U.  S.  Government.  Cardinal  Gibbons  invites  those  Supreme 
judges,  those  Cabinet  officers,  those  Army  and  Naval  officers, 
those  Senators  and  Congressmen,  not  as  indiz'iduals,  but  as  of- 
ficial representatives  of  the  Republic. 

His  purpose  in  both  these  national  functions  is.  to  make  it 
appear  to  the  other  Nations  of  earth  that  the  United  States  gives 
official  sanction,  preference,  and  union,  to  the  church  of  the  Ital- 
ian pope. 

"Resisting  the  beginnings,"  says  the  ancient  maxim.  Can  we 
not  recognize  the  sly  hand  of  Rome,  and  the  far-seeing  purposes 
of  the  Jesuits,  in  quietly — almost  without  causing  a  ripple  on  the 
surface — establishing  these  two  official  functions  at  the  National 
Capital,  and  commanding  the  official  attendance  and  reverence  of 
your  Protestant  Government? 

The  third  national  function  is,  the  Columbus  Day,  already 
adopted  by  twenty-four  States  which  did  not  realize  how  adroitly 
Rome  was  pussy-footing".  They  have  no  Columbus  Day  in 
Genoa,  where  Columbus  is  said  to  have  been  born.     They  have  no 

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Columbus  Day  in  Spain,  to  whose  empire  he  added  so  vastly. 
They  have  no  Columbus  Day  in  Italy,  whose  pope  claimed  every- 
thing that  was  "discovered;"  and  usurped  the  authority  to  divide 
the  entire  New  World  between  Spain  and  Portugal. 

W'hv.  then,  do  they  claim  a  Columbus  Day  in  this  country? 
Columbus  never  touched  these  shores,  and  never  knew  of  their 
existence.  He  sailed  West  to  go  East ;  and  he  believed  that  he 
had  reached  China,  when  he  stumbled  upon  the  Bahamas  and 
the  West  Indies.  He  died  in  profound  ignorance  of  North 
America. 

If  we  are  to  celebrate  any  discovery  day,  it  ought  to  be  in  honor 
of  the  Cabots,  or  of  the  Northmen  who  reached  the  continent  a 
thousand  years  ago,  and  planted  settlements. 

But  the  American  subjects  of  the  Italian  Pope  wanted  a  festal 
day,  such  as  they  have  in  Roman  Catholic  lands,  on  which  they 
can  take  possession  of  the  streets,  close  up  the  shops,  suspend 
all  business,  and  parade  around  with  their  banners,  and  images, 
and  petticoated  convent-keepers,  insolently  displaying  their  mili- 
tary power  and  their  war-like  equipment,  to  the  exultation  of  in- 
cipient traitors,  and  to  the  disgust  and  alarm  of  all  patriotic 
Americans. 

But  this  is  not  all,  though  it  is  a  sinister  beginning — an  in- 
sidious insertion  of  the  thin  edge  of  the  wedge.  Violating  the 
spirit  of  our  Constitution,  if  not  the  letter  of  it,  they  have  demand- 
ed that  our  Government  receive  an  Ambassador  from  the  Italian 
Pope,  and  our  Government  has  yielded  to  the  demand. 

Prior  to  1870,  the  Pope  was  the  king  of  Italy,  a  temporal  ruler, 
like  the  King  of  Prussia,  the  Czar  of  Russia,  and  the  Sultan  of 
Turkey :  therefore,  our  Government  could  have  legally  received 
an  envoy  from  the  Pope,  as  Monarch  of  Italy. 

But  since  1870,  the  Catholics  of  that  long  oppressed  country 
have  been  liberated  from  the  crushing  yoke  of  papay  govern- 
ment. They  have  ruled  themselves,  with  the  ballot,  and  through 
their  parliaments,  utterly  rejecting  the  Pope's  pretentions  to  tem- 
poral power.  The  King  of  Italy  himself,  does  not  send  and  re- 
ceive papal  ambassadors.     But  we  do — why? 

The   French   republic   scornfully   refuses — even   in   the   stress 

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of    this    terrible    war — to    send    and    receive    papal    ambassadors. 
But  zee  do— WHY? 

The  American  prelates  softly  tell  us  that  the  Pope's  power 
is  only  spiritual.  What  business,  then,  has  our  Government  to 
be  honoring  the  ambassador  of  a  spiritual  sovereignty?  Under 
what  clause  of  the  Constitution  does  the  Federal  Government 
take  jurisdiction  over  spiritual  matters?  Under  what  theory  of 
civil  government  does  our  President  hold  official  relations  with  the 
ambassador  of  a  religious  organization  ?  How  docs  our  Federal 
Government  come  to  be  in  official  touch  zvith  the  Pope  of  Rome? 

The  whole  status  is  unlawful,  and  it  is  dangerous.  It  was 
never  known,  until  the  time  of  President  Cleveland.  Before  that 
era.  whenever  this  Government  sent  an  envoy  to  the  Pope,  it  was 
to  him  in  his  capacity  of  temporal  ruler  of  a  foreign  kingdom:. 
Remember  the  distinction,  for  it  is  vital.  The  Romanists,  as 
usual,  are  digging  up  the  precedents  of  papal  envoys,  for  the 
purpose  of  paving  the  way  for  others,  but  the  circumstances  are 
altogether  different.  Prior  to  1870,  the  Italian  popes  were  kings — 
and  the  worst  kings  that  Europe  ever  saw.  Since  1870,  the  pope 
has  been  a  spiritual  imposter,  upholding,  by  means  of  deadly 
secret  societies,  the  image  worship  and  pagan  ceremonies  which 
are  such  a  travesty  upon  the  simple  Christianity  of  the  primitive 
church,  and  such  a  flagrant  insult  to  common  sense.  The  ig- 
norant woolly  heads  of  Darkest  Africa  make  their  own  gods,  and 
bow  down  to  them,  but  do  not  eat  them :  the  Romanists  not  only 
make  their  own  gods,  and  bow  down  to  them,  but  eat  them. 

Naturally,  it  requires  separate  education,  secret  processes,  wide- 
ly ramified  secret  societies,  and  pozvcrful  motives,  to  maintain 
such  a  ludicrous,  yet  hideous  system,  in  this  age  of  many-sided 
progress.  The  powerful  motive  is,  the  stupendous  sums  of  money 
that  the  Roman  priesthood  derives  from  papal  merchandise — an 
organized  commercializing  of  everything  that  pertains  to  religion 
and  the  salvation  of  the  souls  of  men,  a  systematized  sale  of  ex- 
emptions from  hell,  releases  from  an  imaginary  purgatory,  and 
"absolution"  permits  to  heaven.  It  is  a  sordid  system  of  money- 
making  which  rifles  the  graves  to  get  human  bones  to  sell ;  which 
turns  the  cistern  and  the  fountain  into  gold  mines  by  the  manu- 
facture of  "holy  water;"  which  creates  an  imaginary  Saint  to  oc- 
cupy the  place  of  every  ancient  pagan  deity,  and  sells  the  phantom 


favors  of  these  phantom  Saints  to  grovelling  dupes ;  which  imparts 
imaginary  qualities  to  numberless  trinkets  and  gewgaws,  and 
then  sells  the  wares  in  the  unlimited  market  of  superstition ;  which 
impudently  asserts  its  exclusive  possession  of  the  keys  of  super- 
natural worlds,  and  then  uses  the  keys  to  unlock  the  cash-drawers 
of  this  prosaic  earth. 

Motive?  Why.  it  is  the  most  powerful  trinity  of  motives  that 
can  organize  mankind,  and  keep  it  organized,  for  the  organization 
gives  to  it  the  most  luxurious  living,  the  most  privileged  aristo- 
cracy that  ever  weilded  the  subtle  influences  of  a  religious  caste, 
tJic  unlimited  secret  use  of  the  most  beautiful  z^'omen,  and  a  com- 
plete exemption  from  the  burdens  of  lay  citizenship.  Wealth, 
Power,  Privilege — and  W^omen !  What  pagan  priesthood  ever 
demanded  more,  and  got  more? 

But  in  addition  to  having  compelled  our  Government  to  con- 
nect itself  officially  with  the  Italian  popes,  the  Catholic  lobby  at 
Washington  has  succeeded  in  establishing  permanent  relations  with 
the  national  treasury. 

Never  a  Congress  expires  that  does  not  lavish  public  money 
on  the  pope's  charitable  institutions  in  Washington,  and  on  his 
Indian  Schools,  in  which  his  teachers  wear  their  religious  garb 
and,  practically  teach,  the  pope's  religion.  Never  a  Congress  can 
come  and  go,  without  the  pope's  lobby  clamoring  for  more  chap- 
lains and  more  authority  to  compel  non-Catholics  to  surrender 
their  religious  freedom. 

In  the  Army  and  Navy,  religious  liberty  has  already  been 
stamped  out  by  the  Catholic  chaplains.  Cardinal  Gibbons,  and  his 
-lobbyist,  O'Hearn — backed  by  the  ubiquitous  and  inevitable  Tu- 
iTnulty — compelled  this  Democratic  administration  to  raise  the 
.chaplains  to  the  rank  of  officers:  therefore,  as  a  matter  of  military 
discipline,  th€  soldiers  and  sailors  are  forced  to  attend  the  monkey 
mummeries  of  papal  worship. 

How  many  times  during  all  the  years  that  Catholicism  was 
silently  importing  Romanists  from  Ireland,  Italy,  Poland,  and 
Hungary^how  many  times  did  the  pope's  high-priests  assure  the 
American  people  that  the  "Holy  Father"  fa'irly  doted  on  America, 
kird  upon  the  American  principles  of  civil  and  religious  liberty? 
How  many'  tinies  has  Cardinal  Gibbons  softly  pi])ed  that  tunc,  in 


public  talks,  and  in  published  articles?  How  often  have  such 
Catholic  orators  as  Burke  Cochran  loudly  protested  his  devotion 
to  our  Constitutional  principles,  and  claimed  papal  credit  for 
Magna  Charta?  Only  a  few  years  ago.  Prince  James  of  Balti- 
more had  an  article  in  The  North  American  Review,  in  which  he 
roundly  declared  that  there  was  not  a  single  provision  in  the 
Constitution  which  the   Catholics   would  change,   if   they  could! 

In  his  book,  Faith  of  our  Fathers,  Cardinal  Gibbons  alludes 
to  Magna  Charta  as  "the  greatest  bulwark  of  civil  liberty,  the 
foundation  of  constitutional  freedom ;"  and  he  asks,  with  sublime 
effrontery,  "Who  were  the  framers  of  this  memorable  charter? 

Prince  James  answers  his  own  question  by  saying,  "Arch- 
bishop Langton,  of  Canterbury,  and  the  Catholic  barons."  Thus 
does  Prince  James  coolly  appropriate  to  Roman  Catholicism  the 
establishment  of  English  liberties. 

His  royal  highness,  Prince  James  of  Baltimore,  innocently 
omitted  a  few  particulars  which  he  no  doubt  considered  altogether 
unimportant.  One  of  the  trivial  details  which  the  Prince  re- 
strained himself  from  mentioning  was,  that  Magna  Charta  is  noth- 
ing more  than  a  reassertion  of  the  ancient  Saxon  liberties,  zvhich 
the  "Catholic  barons"  of  Normandy  had  suppressed. 

Cardinal  Gil)bons  knows  full  well  that  William  the  Conqueror 
made  his  bargain  with  the  pope  before  he  invaded  England,  and 
that  this  Catholic  Duke  of  Normandy  used  the  papal  device  on  his 
banners  when  he  conquered  the  English  and  despoiled  them  of 
their  lands  and  liberties.  (In  like  manner,  another  pope  sold 
Ireland  to  another  conqueror,   Henry   II.   of   England.) 

Another  trifling  detail  which  Cardinal  Gibbons  forbore  to 
mention  was,  that  the  tyrannical  King  John,  and  the  feudal  barons 
who  supported  him,  zvcre  Catholics. 

Another  omitted  triviality  is,  that  the  pope  was  so  incensed  by 
the  patriotic  conduct  of  "Stephen  Langton  and  the  Catholic 
barons."  that  lie  disgraced  the  Archbishop,  and  excommunicated 
the  barons.  Don't  you  wonder  why  Prince  Truthful  James,  of 
Baltimore,  neglected  a  detail  of  that  sort? 

But  he  omitted  another,  to-wit :  that,  the  ivrathful  pope  laid 
his  curse  upon  "the  greatest  bulwark  of  civil  liberty."     The  papal 


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anathema  not  only  fell  upon  Langton  and  the  rebellious  "Catholic 
barons."  but  the  pope  released  King  John  from  his  oath  and  from 
his  bond — the  oath  to  abide  by  Magna  Chart  a,  and  the  bond  that 
he  would  keep  faith. 

Who  speaks  for  Roman  Catholicism?  According  to  Truth- 
ful James  of  Baltimore,  the  popes  voice  is  not  the  voice  of  the 
church.  What  law  binds  Roman  Catholicism?  According  to 
Truthful  James  of  Baltimore,  the  canon  lazv  of  Rome  does  not 
b'pid  the  church,  for  that  law  stands  today  where  it  always  has 
stood,  in  deadly,  irreconcil cable  antagonism  to  the  principles  of 
Magna  Charta.  Truthful  James  is  a  typical  Jesuit,  and  he  is 
never  so  sweetly  unctious  as  when  he  is  cajoling  and  gulling  non- 
Catholics  with  glossy  lies. 

In  his  Pan-American  banquet  speech  last  year,  he  told  the 
sapient  William  J.  Bryan,  and  the  other  governmental  officials 
who  were  there  to  render  homage  to  the  papacy,  that  the  Roman 
church  heartily  favored  separation  of  Church  and  State.  Truth- 
ful James  knew,  as  well  as  he  knows  anything,  that  the  Italian 
pope,  had  recently  excommunicated  every  prelate  who  acquiesced 
in  the  separation  of  Church  and  State  in  France.  One  of  those 
Catholics  whom  the  pope  cursed  and  turned  adrift  was,  Bishop 
Vilatte  of  Paris,  who  is  living  in  Chicago,  at  this  moment. 

What  can  you  do  with  Romanist  dignitaries  who  feel  privileged 
to  deceive  the  American  people  zvith  such  deliberate  and  calculated 
falsehoods? 

The  Canon  law  of  the  Roman  Church  savagely  denounces 
separation  of  Church  and  State,  just  as  it  vents  maledictions  upon 
freedom  of  conscience,  of  speech,  of  press,  of  worship,  and  of 
political  action — and  just  as  it  condemns  those  civil  powers  that 
would  seek  to  liberate  the  women  who  are  kept  under  lock  and 
key,  behind  barred  windows,  and  dungeon-like  walls,  by  these 
sensual  priests  of  Rome.  * 

When  Cardinal  Gibbons  tells  Bryan  and  other  officials,  that 
Romanism  heartily  favors  the  very  things  which  are  hotly  con- 
demned in  the  fundamental  and  unchangeable  law  of  Romanism, 
what  can  be  the  Gibbons  object,  if  not  to  lull  and  deceive? 

But  the  Vatican  and  its  American  satellites  have  been  able 


to  do  another  great  work  for  the  Roman  system.  They  have  been 
able  to  compel  two  Presidents,  of  opposing  politics,  to  put  a  veto 
upon  the  law-making  branch  of  our  Government,  in  the  matter  of 
Immigration.  They  have  been  able,  in  each  instance,  to  inter- 
pose the  will  of  one  man,  to  defeat  the  will  of  an  overwhelming 
majority  of  the  people's  representatives.  They  have  been  able 
to  control  Wilson,  the  Democrat  with  the  same  ease  that  they 
controlled  Taf t,  the  Republican.  They  have  been  able  to  prevent 
the  Congress  of  the  United  States  from  carrying  out  the  wishes 
of  the  American  people. 

A  torrent  of  pauperism  and  illiteracy  pours  into  this  country 
from  Catholic  Southern  Europe,  cheapening  the  price  of  Ameri- 
can labor,  lengthening  the  bread  lines  of  the  large  cities,  crowding 
the  loathsome  tenements,  overflowing  the  mines  and  mills,  and 
adding  enormously  to  the  vice,  disease,  pauperism,  illiteracy  and 
the  crime  that  are  driving  this  Republic  hellward.  Those  human 
hordes  do  not  become  assimilated  with  our  population.  They  do 
not.  imbibe  Americanism.  They  do  not  learn  our  language,  and 
they  do  not  give  a  thought  to  our  institutions.  Their  children 
are  separated  by  the  priests  into  the  pope's  own  parochial  schools, 
where  they  learn  hatred  of  "heretics,"  and  servility  to  the  foreign 
potentate  whom  they  are  being  trained  to  serve. 

The  immigrants  themselves  are  herded  off,  by  the  Catholic 
Colonization  Society,  into  separate  Catholic  colonies,  where  none 
but  Catholics  are  permitted  to  settle. 

Thus,  papal  islands,  as  it  were,  are  rising  throughout  tJic 
ocean  of  American  life;  and  in  each  of  these  papal  islands,  the 
Italian  pope  and  his  law  are  supreme. 

It  would  seem  that  the  Vatican  might  ease  up  awhile,  and 
rest  on  its  laurels.  It  has  gained  so  immensely  singe  Cleveland's 
era,  that  even  a  rapacious  papacy  might  well  afford  to  wait,  be 
patient,  and  be  conciliatory.  It  has  the  Chief  Justiceship  of  the 
highest  court  in  the  Republic :  it  has  an  acting  President  in  the 
White  House.  It  has  established  three  national  functions ;  and  it 
has  entrapped  the  Federal  Government  into  the  unlawful  Pan- 
American  Union. 

It  has  captured  the  Government  Printing  Office  entirely,  and 
the  Knight  of  Columbus,  who  is  in  charge,  has  carried  out  the 


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pledge  contained  in  that  alleged  oath,  by  discharging  Protestant 
employees.  It  has  captured  three-fourths  of  all  patronage  in  the 
Departments  at  Washington;  and  the  few  Protestants  who  work 
there  know  that  they  are  spied  upon  systematically  by  the  Catho- 
lics. 

They  have  compelled  the  railroads  to  haul  their  priests,  and 
their  nuns,  and  their  chapel-cars  free  of  charge.  They  have  got 
control  of  nearly  half  of  the  Army  and  Navy,  through  their  un- 
lawful chapel  at  West  Point,  and  their  successful  demand  for 
ofificer-chaplains  in  the  service.  They  have  so  terrorized  our  daily 
papers  that  not  one  of  them  dares  to  print  the  truth  about  the 
causes  of  the  Mexican  revolution,  or  about  such  papal  crimes  as 
the  cowardly  assassination  of  William  Black  by  the  Knights  of 
Columbus.  They  have  piously  filched  from  doped  Americans 
hundreds  of  millions  of  dollars,  invested  in  the  choicest  realty,  and 
exempt  from  taxation.  They  have  legalized  the  process  by  which 
their  sweat-shops  are  supplied  with  Protestant  slave  labor,  fur- 
nished by  the  so-called  Juvenile  Courts.  They  have  imprisoned 
for  life  56,000  American  women,  under  the  pretense  that  those 
women  are  ravenously  fond  of  confinement ;  and  tJiey  bitterly 
resent  the  proposition  tJiat  the  States  shall  open  those  prison  doors, 
and  ask  those  woinen  i^'hethcr,  they  want  their  freedom. 

Wouldn't  you  think  that  even  so  avaricious  a  potentate  as  the 
Italian  pope  might  be  content  with  all  this  accumulation  of  wealth, 
privilege,   and  power — content   for   a   little   while? 

But  he  isn't.  The  more  he  gets,  the  more  he  wants.  While 
a  papal  object  remains  unattained.  nothing  has  been  done.  Con- 
sequently, we  have  a  papal  campaign  luider  way  to  establish  a 
censorship  of  the  press,  in  the  interest  of  Roman  Catholicism. 
They  want  to  go  back  to  the  Middle  Ages,  as  nearly  as  possible, 
and  to  enjoy  the  privilege  of  shielding  from  criticism  the  most 
hateful  and  ruinous  s}'stem  that  ever  cursed  the  human  race. 

James  Gallivan,  of  Massachusetts,  is  the  renegade  Congress- 
man who  has  proposed  that  the  Postmaster  General  shall  be  vested 
with  dictatorial  power  to  throw  out  of  the  mails,  any  book,  paper, 
magazine,  picture,  or  anything  else,  tJiat  "reflects  on"  popery. 
It  is  a  shameful  thing  that  any  Congressional  Committee  should 
have  been  seriously  considering  a  bill  which  proposes  to  do  the 


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very  thini,^  which  the  Constitution  says  Congress  shall  not  do. 
Our  fundamental,  organic  law  distinctly  deprives  Congress  of 
the  right  to  pass  any  law  ahridging  the  freedom  of  the  press ;  yet 
a  Committee  of  Congress,  zcitJi  a  majority  of  Democrats  on  it,  has 
been  seriously  debating,  and  considering,  a  law  which  would  com- 
pletely destroy  the  freedom  of  the  press,  and  thus  give  perfect 
protection  to  any  kind  of  papal  outrage. 

If  Congress  were  to  violate  the  Constitution,  in  the  way  that 
Fitzgerald  and  Gallivan  propose,  almost  the  whole  mass  of  Pro- 
testant literature  would  be  unmailable.  The  prose  works  of  John 
Milton,  and  of  Dante,  would  be  outlawed.  Under  the  proposed 
laws  of  Fitzgerald  and  Gallivan.  the  Notes  from  Italy,  of  Charles 
Dickens  would  l)e  under  the  ban.  and  so  would  be  the  Castilian 
Days  of  our  late  illustrious  Secretary  of  State.  John  Hay.  The 
standard  histories  of  England,  Ireland,  and  of  the  Continental 
Europe  would  all  go  by  the  board,  for  they  "reflect  on"  Roman 
Catholicism,  terribly.  Bishop  Burnett  would  have  to  vacate,  Buc- 
hanan would  disappear.  Buckle  and  Lecky  and  Gibbon,  and 
Guizot  and  Martin  Hume,  and  Symonds  and  Hallam  and  Froude 
and  Ranke  and  Schiller,  and  pretty  nearly  all  the  others  that  are 
worth  reading,  would  have  to  quit ;  and  we  would  all  go  back  to 
the  perusal  of  the  Lives  of  the  Saints,  and  the  history  of  Gregory 
of  Tours,  and  dope  our  docile  minds  on  marvels,  miracles,  and  the 
red  dragons  that  devour  wicked  people  who  eat  meat  on  Friday. 

Lord!  What  glorious  literature  and  lovely  conditions  we 
would  have,  if  the  good  old  Middle  Ages  could  return,  and  put  a 
nice  new  papal  bridle  and  curb-bit  on  the  American  press!  It 
would  not  be  long,  then,  before  ive  would  see  the  Virgin  appearing 
to  some  child,  at  some  place  in  Louisiana,  or  Maryland,  just  as 
the  "Mother  of  God"  has  appeared  at  Guadaloupe  in  Mexico. 
Lourdes  in  France,  and  in  many  other  places  where  Catholicism, 
ignorance,  superstition  and  priest-power  are  especially  strong. 

Under  the  infamous  bill  which  Gallivan  has  introduced,  and 
which  a  Democratic  committee  is  considering,  the  book  written  by 
Gladstone,  the  great  English  statesman,  on  the  Vatican  decrees 
of  1870,  could  not  be  sent  through  the  United  States  mail! 

Neither  could  you  mail  the  book  of  Dr.  Josiah  Strong,  Our 
Country;  nor  that  of  the  Rev.  Wm.  Cathcart,  The  Papal  System; 


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nor    the    magnificent    work    of    tlie    Irish    CathoHc,    McCarthy, 
Priests  and  People  in  Ireland. 

You  could  not  mail  any  of  the  "Lives"  of  Alartin  Luther, 
John  Knox.  John  Calvin,  John  WycliiTe.  John  Huss,  Savonarola, 
or  Jerome  of  Prague.  You  could  not  even  mail  the  Life  of 
General  Garbaldi,  the  Washington  of  Italy,  who  led  his  people 
out  of  the  intolerable  Egypt  of  priest  rule. 

You  could  not  mail  the  Life  of  Jitarec,  the  Mexican  Indian, 
who  broke  the  chains  of  Rome  in  our  neighboring  republic.  You 
could  not  even  mail  tHe  works  of  the  illustrious  Catholic  scholar, 
Erasmus,  for  they  "reflect"  most  horribly  upon  the  putrid  spots 
of  the  Roman  system. 

Shelley's  poems  would  have  to  go  by  freight,  and  Voltaire 
could  not  go  at  all.  Petrarch,  the  Gabriel  of  the  Renaissance, 
would  never  blow  his  golden  trump  again,  for  he  most  bitterly 
denounced  the  corruptions  of  the  Roman  church.  An  infallible 
"Christ  veiled  in  the  flesh"  had  raped  Petrarch's  beautiful  sister, 
and  the  outraged  poet  allowed  the  feelings  of  a  man  to  overcome 
the  reverence  of  a  papist. 

If  there  were  any  sincerity  in  this  Catholic  crusade  against 
obscene  and  scurrilous  literature,  they  would  not  make  their  at- 
tack solely  against  anti-Catholic  publications.  If  they  cared  two 
straws  for  public  and  private  morals,  they  would  long  since  have 
objected  to  the  circulation  of  the  obscene  novels  of  Smollett, 
Fielding,  De  Foe,  G.  P.  R.  James,  Zola,  Balzac,  De  Maupassant, 
Flaubert,  De  Kock,  Daudet,  D'Annunzio,  Boccacio,  Queen  Mar- 
garet of  Navarre  and  a  legion  of  the  living  purveyors  of  filth  in 
the  so-called  "sex"  novels  that  go  hand  in  hand  with  joy-rides, 
road-houses,  soft-drinks,  and  assignations. 

If  these  Roman  Catholics  cared  a  button  for  morality  they 
would  do  what  the  Greek  Catholics  do — compel  their  priests  to 
marry. 

If  these  Roman  Catholics  cared  a  pinch  of  snuff  for  morality, 
they  would  do  as  the  Greek  Catholics  do — compel  their  priests 
to  restrain  the  confessional  zvithin  decent  limits. 

So  long  as  the  Gallivans  and  the  Fitzgeralds  make  no  protest 
against  unmarried  priests  who  keep  a  supply  of   pretty  women 


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walled  in  and  locked  up,  the  Gallivans  and  Fitzgeralds  cannot  make 
anybody  believe  that  they  care  a  continental  for  morals. 

As  long  as  the  Gallivans  and  the  Fitzgeralds  make  no  protest 
against  the  constant  and  private  use,  by  the  priests,  to  tlie  Catholic 
women,  of  language  that  is  so  horribly  obscene,  that  a  brothel 
zvoiild  not  tolerate  it,  and  the  Federal  judges  will  not  allow  it  to 
soil  their  court  papers,  the  Gallivans  and  Fitzgeralds  will  never 
hoodwink  anybody  by  saying  that  their  hostility  to  anti-Catholic 
literature  is  based  upon  their  solicitude  for  good  morals. 

The  leaders  of  the  Democratic  party  are  strangely  blind,  if 
they  do  not  realize  what  this  truckling  to  a  foreign  potentate  will 
do  to  them  in  the  next  elections. 

Is  there  something  in  the  structure  of  the  Democratic  party 
which  renders  it  incapable  of  foresight,  and  of  that  intuition  of 
popular  tendencies  which  is  the  necessary  element  of  political 
success  ? 

Can  the  Democratic  party  never  capture  the  Government,  ex- 
cept by  agreeing  beforehand,  and  in  secret,  to  do  more  for  Special 
Privilege,  more  for  the  Roman  Church,  more  for  the  negroes, 
and  more  for  the  pensioners,  militarists,  and  office-holders,  than 
the  Republicans  were  willing  to  do? 

Does  the  leadership  and  the  statesmanship  of  the  Democratic 
party  consist  of  a  keen  desire  to  wear  the  other  man's  wardrobe 
better  than  the  other  man  can  wear  it? 

Is  the  democracy  of  the  Democratic  party  nothing  more  than 
exaggerated  praise  of  Jefferson,  accompanied  by  an  exaggerated 
imitation  of  Hamilton? 

Is  it  another  case  of  mocking  the  people  and  the  principles 
which  it  pretends  to  serve? 

Is  it  another  case  of  satirical  fawning  upon  the  intended  vic- 
tim, by  those  who  mean  to  sacrifice  it? 

Is  it  another  case  where  the  men  cry  aloud,  "Hail !  King  of 
the  Jews,"  and  spit  upon  him? 

Is  it  another  case  where  they  place  a  crown  upon  his  head, 
having  made  it  one  of  thorns? 

Is  it  another  case  of  where  they  place  a  sceptre  in  his  hand, 
the  sceptre  being  a  reed  ? 


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Good  God !  Was  ever  a  people  so  ]5etra\ed  and  mocked  and 
crucified,  as  our  people  have  been,  by  this  Democratic  admini- 
stration ? 

Let  the  Gallivans  and  the  Fitzgeralds  go  on  with  their  insolent 
and  treasonous  crusade  against  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States !  Let  the  Democratic  leaders  continue  to  do  homage  to 
the  pope's  American  magnates :  let  the  President  continue  to 
keep  Tumulty  in  evidence  :  let  the  Public  Printer  continue  to  throvi^ 
Protestants  out  of  the  Government  printing  office :  let  the  Secre- 
taries of  War  and  of  the  Navy  continue  to  acquiesce  in  Romanist 
suppression  of  freedom  of  worship :  let  Postmaster  General  Bur- 
leson continue  to  intimate  that  Congress  ought  to  give  him  the 
power  to  censor  the  press  !  Let  them  keep  it  up — and  next  year 
they  will  reap  the  ivliirlwind ! 


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